Class Materials

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Required Texts
Syllabus1
Syllabus2
Handouts---including links to sample documents
Assignments-2001
Exam Review -- Restricted Access ---
Announcements
Problems and Discussion Forum----Restricted Access --opens in a new window
Try revised Question 6
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
LOCAL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA
Federal courts
Federal complaint example  --- Amistad lawsuit from CourtTV Site
More Federal Court Resources
United States Code -- Title 28 --- Part IV. Jurisdiction and Venue --- from the Legal Information Institute Site.
Chapt. 81. Supreme Court
Chapt. 83. Courts of Appeals
Chapt. 85. District Courts; Jurisdiction
Chapt. 87. District Courts; Venue
Chapt. 89. District Courts; Removal of Cases from State Courts
Eighth Circuit Rules & Publications

 Buffalo Creek Disaster

Finding the Book

West Virginia State Archives

Charleston Gazette Buffalo Creek Site

 Natalie Haley Power Point Slide Presentation

Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster

Arnold & Porter September 1996 Pro Bono Newsletter

 A Civil Action

 Pleadings for Anderson v. Beatrice Foods
 In the First Circuit --900 F.2d 388 (1990)- Lexis 
cert denied 

 A Commentary by environmenal lawyers

 The Courtroom ---from Ohio State Geology Class-http://www.geology.ohio-state.edu/courtroom/- Science in the Courtroom-Dr. E. Scott Bair,Geological Sciences H451

 The Courtroom and the Judge-- from Ohio State Geology Class Site
 The Lawyers
The Woburn Toxic Trial Attorneys 
Cheeseman 
Cheeseman Photos, etc. 

Nesson

Nesson2 

Kiley and Schlichtmann
A Civil Action: The Real People 
 W.R. Grace site on the case: Beyond a Civil Action 
Site 2 

 The Courtroom from the Ohio State University Geology Class Website

 Jonathan Harr talks about the book

 Jan Schlichtmann interview at Cornell

 Woburn Resources Site by Dan Kennedy

 Court TV documentary about the making of the film A Civil Action Hosted by John Travolta

 Brandeis University Libraries web page

 Another Battle

Mass. Bill on Film Depictions

 Yet Another Battle-Dan Kennedy Article
A Woburn Skeptic's Page

Randomhouse Books Reading Guide for the Book
 Woburn, Massachusetts
WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS CITY INFORMATION
Another city site
Woburn History
Community Page
Boston.com Woburn Page

 Woburn Leukemia Study

 Erin Brockovich and Jan Schlichtmann-Dan Kennedy Article
 Jan Schlichtmann and W.R. Grace in a new dispute

 Recent Cases

 Other Course-Related Sites

Cornell's Legal Information Institute -- Overview of Civil Procedure and Menu of Sources
Understanding the Federal Courts(-a PDF file Adobe Acrobat Reader required)-- Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
National Center for State Courts
Glossary of Terms --- U.S. Courts Site
Federal Courts ----------------->
Circuit Courts Maps
Emory Law Library
Georgetown Law Library
District Courts
List by Circuit
Findlaw list
District Court Links


 
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